December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

All good things comes to those who wait.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.